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		<title>On Sales and Selling &#8211; By Ben Stein</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/05/04/on-sales-and-selling-by-ben-stein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sales Profession: Attention Must Still Be Paid

By BEN STEIN
Published: April 25, 2009
ASIDE from some gardening and baby-sitting in my neighborhood when I was a child, my first summer job was in the summer of 1962, just before my first year of college. It was at Shoe Giant, a large discount shoe store in Langley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intangibility of Twitter Results</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/05/03/intangibility-of-twitter-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 13:07:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a Twitip blog post on the Intangibility of Twitter Results. I made the following comment on the article. Reason being &#8211; Too many Twitter users pay sole attention to marketing based on tweet updates and building their follow list. Twitter is more than that.
Twitter is a great sales platform if your primary business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garment Valet &#8211; A Business Case Study</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/04/17/garment-valet-a-business-case-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 01:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garment Valet &#8211; A Business Case Study
By Rob Walker (NYT)
The story of the young company is a reminder that entrepreneurship often depends more on successful execution than radical reinvention.
It’s easy to draw despondent conclusions from the economic headlines. For instance, if you were thinking of starting a laundry-and-dry-cleaning business that requires consumers to pay for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Traits That Separate the Achievers From the Wannabes</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/04/16/six-traits-that-separate-the-achievers-from-the-wannabes/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/04/16/six-traits-that-separate-the-achievers-from-the-wannabes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six Traits That Separate the Achievers From the Wannabes
Cheryl Dorsey, president of Echoing Green, a social entrepreneurship funder which has dispensed over $27M to projects such as City Year and Teach for America, says the people who make things happen share certain common traits.
Each year Echoing Green vets about 1000 ideas to come up with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tweet Your Way to Business Success</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/04/05/tweet-your-way-to-business-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is all over the Internet. It could be well taken for granted as media and marketing hype. But, I strongly believe in its communication potential. And to me, that is the single most value factor which will propel Twitter into directions we can hardly foresee at the moment.
I rarely endorse a company or a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Evan Williams on What&#8217;s Behind Twitter&#8217;s Explosive Growth</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/30/evan-williams-on-whats-behind-twitters-explosive-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/30/evan-williams-on-whats-behind-twitters-explosive-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<title>Despite Economy, New Startups Retain Optimism</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/20/despite-economy-new-startups-retain-optimism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. &#8211; With many established businesses just trying to survive, you might not think it&#8217;s a good time to start a company, let alone ask anyone for money to help get it rolling. But if a series of presentations from fledgling Silicon Valley startups is any indication, innovation is not braking for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Cannot be an Entrepreneur if&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/19/one-cannot-be-an-entrepreneur-if/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Bits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you deceiving yourself?

This question is 100% directed to those self appointed entrepreneurs. You see, if there was an institution which gave away entrepreneurial credentials upon completing the required education, it would be a nurturing experience.
Alas, other than gaining a crash course in business management, MBA or acquiring some business skill, there is no agency, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Am I A Twit for Not Twittering?</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/03/01/am-i-a-twit-for-not-twittering/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caroline Adams Miller speaks my mind when she makes a case for social behavior, which is completely out of hand. This &#8216;Can&#8217;t live without&#8217; or &#8216;must have&#8217; mentality has taken over common sense and rational thinking. Everyone is doing it, so must I.
On The Net : An article by Caroline Adams Miller
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		<title>Click Fraud &#8211; Costing Advertisers Billions. Why?</title>
		<link>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/02/25/click-fraud-costing-advertisers-billions-why/</link>
		<comments>http://chrisdesouza.com/blog/2009/02/25/click-fraud-costing-advertisers-billions-why/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Desouza</dc:creator>
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PPC (Pay per click) fraud costs advertisers billions of dollars in wasteful marketing budget. The irony is, the big guys are NOT doing enough (in spite of their claims) to stop this. I&#8217;d know how!
I received a message from this dude in India, asking me to visit his blog and click on his ads and [...]]]></description>
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